Archive for February, 2017

By Suzanne Roberts Getting naked with your new lover’s family. Your lover’s family doesn’t like that you’re from California, that you’re only half Jewish (and the wrong half), but most of all, that you’re still married. While nobody seems to question your lover’s decision to have an affair with a married woman, everyone wonders about […]

By Rosemary Davis A visit to the home of the Mississippi blues. Sometimes the answers aren’t easy. Driving down endless country roads—seeing nothing but identical rows of crops covering the flat, uneven land, one ponders the meaning of life. But in one Southern town, the meaning of life can be summed up in two words: […]

By Carol J. Arnold An old gypsy teaches a retired American visitor that getting lost is often the best way to find what you’re looking for. It came out of nowhere, a horrendous crash like something had dropped from the sky, shattering the passenger window only a few feet from my face. “It’s okay,” my […]